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Quantum Fluctuation… M.S. Mousavi Karimi (183
philosophical- perhaps even such as momentum or
theological- what was there energy, which occurs in the
before the big bang? world of subatomic
Clearly by asking “what particles according to the
was before the Big Bang” laws of probability. One of
neither Linde nor Gribbin the bizarre aspects of
mean “what existed in a quantum theory is that it
time which was before the allows a system to violate
Big Bang”. For the easy the law of mass-energy
response is that there was conservation in a very short
no before. Rather they are time.
seeking to find the cause of In other words, a system
this event; that is, why the is allowed to “borrow”
universe came into some tiny amount of
existence, if there was not energy, providing that the
nothing as the cause of the very same amount shall be
event. returned into the medium in
Some physical models so short a time that it could
have been proposed to not be detected within the
answer this question. The limits of the Uncertainty
best of these models are Principle. This short while,
probably those which are better known as “Compton
based on a quantum Time” (t c), is the time
fluctuation. during which mass (m)
Quantum fluctuation is could violate the
an uncertain change in one conservation law and it is
of a system’s parameters
